Cheng wrote a post on Jan. 1, 2014, reporting rumors that Billboard editorial director Bill Werde was about to be fired.

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In the post, which has since been deleted from Examiner.com but lives on in full on ONTD, Cheng alleged that changes to the Billboard chart were carried out to help mask Lady Gaga's lackluster sales. Cheng quoted a "music industry insider" who told her, "The charts are not based on actual success anymore; they are allegedly based on how much Bill Werde likes the song."

A week later it was announced that Janice Min, the editor credited with turning Billboard's sister publication The Hollywood Reporter around, would be in charge of Billboard, starting immediately.

"Bill has not been fired, he continues to work at Guggenheim Media. The accusations are false and untrue."

It's worth nothing that in November 2013, fans revealed that Cheng's author photo was from this Flickr account and most likely not actually her. It soon changed to the image above. One commenter also alleged that O'Connor and Cheng are the same person:

On Jan. 8, 2014, BuzzFeed requested a comment from Examiner.com about the work of these two writers. That afternoon, both of their archives were completely removed:

Justin Jimenez from Examiner.com told BuzzFeed that the two writers are "no longer are affiliated with Examiner.com, as of January 3" — one day after O'Connor's last post. With regards to their accounts being cleared, Jimenez said that it's against company policy to talk about relationships with individual writers, but did say that account removals are most likely due to a "terms of use violation" which could include "false or defamatory statements, abusive language, or plagiarism."

As he explains in a Tumblr post he published after being contacted by BuzzFeed, Werde himself tried to verify Cheng's identity and asked his friends at Examiner's parent company to look into her posts.

"In Cheng’s bio on Examiner.com, which I can no longer find on site, she listed herself as 'a recent Communication Media Studies graduate of the University of Oklahoma,' and 'the school newspaper’s pop music writer,'" he wrote. "But a University of Oklahoma representative told me on the phone in January that there had been no “Angela Cheng” to enroll or graduate within any timeframe that could reasonably be construed as “recent.” Similarly, no one at the school paper, The Oklahoma Daily, could find any record of an Angela Cheng contributing."

After seeing that her articles had been removed, Cheng announced on Twitter that she had plans for a new site:

BuzzFeed requested comment from Cheng several times though Twitter and then email. Before the launch of her new site, she responded.

She denied being the same person as Sabrina O'Connor outright: "LOL — I am not Sabrina O'Connor. I did use a Flickr picture at first because I am afraid of crazy people recognizing or stalking me. However, I was forced to take that one down and put the current one up." She added that her new site would be a place for more "positive articles."

BuzzFeed then asked Cheng, in an email, about this January tweet, where she seemingly outed herself as a fictional person: